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Missing Word, Missing World: Graduating the Rest of Us, ’09

Graduates of the Bush years, initiates of the Obama era, here’s a commencement address that’s suitably obscure and yet somehow ringing.

Tom Engelhardt

A Killing in Kansas

Prochoice groups declared Monday a national day of mourning following the murder of Dr. George Tiller, a provider of late-term abortions who was long a target of antiabortion zealots.

John Nichols

Mr. Abbas Goes to Washington

Though President Obama met with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas on May 28, there’s little evidence that the United States is encouraging real progress toward a two-state solution.

Ali Abunimah

All the Letters Fit to Print

A longstanding rivalry between old friends shows what it takes to get into the New York Times.

David Margolick

The Dark Side of Plan Colombia

Is Plan Colombia subsidizing narco-traffickers to cultivate biofuels on stolen lands?

Teo Ballvé

The Selling of School Reform

Charter and merit pay advocates make up in lobbying what they lack in community support.

Dana Goldstein

Torture and Truth

The war, as we learned from the photos of Abu Ghraib, produced torture. Before that happened, torture had produced war.

Jonathan Schell

Exacting Change

Obama’s signature economic reforms are under siege. Without a grassroots challenge to business as usual, we won’t get the change we were promised, much less the change we need.

Katrina vanden Heuvel and Robert L. Borosage

George Tiller: Casualty of the Culture Wars?

It’s too early to say whether the murder of a Kansas abortion provider will trigger another wave of a type of violence last seen in the 1990s. It is not too early to be struck by the parallels.

Eyal Press

Return of the Fabulous

In the end, the vote was silly or sad, but for eighteen weeks on American Idol, Adam Lambert was Everyman and Everygayman, skating the edge of ecstasy and terror.

JoAnn Wypijewski

Social Unionism Lives

Garment workers at a suburban Chicago factory fight to save their jobs and prove that social unionism is still relevant.

Joshua Freeman

Noted.

Meltdown in Motown: A Nation forum in Detroit gauges the city’s pain and looks for solutions.

The Editors

Tiananmen at Twenty

China has changed enormously since the 1989 massacre, but the Communist Party continues to deny what happened. Americans, too, continue to misremember a complex event.

Jeffrey Wasserstrom

The Real Sotomayor

Conservatives should think twice before using Sonia Sotomayor’s Latina identity against her.

The Editors

Reagan Didn’t Do It

It would be nice to blame the Gipper for the economic meltdown, but the facts don’t support it. The real villains are closer at hand.

Robert Scheer

Sotomayor is a Sporting Judge

To gauge her judicial temperament, take a close look at Sonia Sotomayor’s rulings in sports. Left-wing in theory, right-wing in practice–no wonder she clicked so smoothly with the Obama administration.

Dave Zirin

Amber Waves of Blame

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Katha Pollitt

Derail the ‘Hate Crimes’ Bandwagon!

Our laws are rapidly collapsing into symbolism.

Alexander Cockburn

Colin Powell and Rush Limbaugh Battle for the Soul of the Republican Party

Fellowship of the ring.

Calvin Trillin

Return of the Fabulous

In the end, the vote was silly or sad, but for eighteen weeks on American Idol, Adam Lambert was Everyman and Everygayman, skating the edge of ecstasy and terror.

JoAnn Wypijewski

Live Long and Prosper: Star Trek and More

J.J. Abrams’s Star Trek, Ron Howard’s Angels & Demons, Olivier Assayas’s Summer Hours

Stuart Klawans

Vice: The Dispiriting Legacy of Dick Cheney

Assessing the stealth, subterfuge and delusion of the Cheney vice presidency.

Stephen Holmes

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Kamau Brathwaite

Letters

R.I.P. Newspapers–but Not the News

Belmont, Mass.

Eric Alterman, D.D. Guttenplan, Our Readers, Karen Rothmyer and Michelle Orange

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Frank W. Lewis